PowerPC, gpart and multiboot (Was: Trying to install FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 on a PowerMac G5)

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 03/14/11 15:28, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:48:24 -0400
> Justin Hibbits<chmeeedalf at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Don't quote me on it, but you might be able to use forth scripts on
>> the 'primary' FreeBSD install's root to do what you're asking,
>> possibly modifying one of the scripts in ...sys/boot/forth.
> Aha, so there isn't a simple boot manager available (like 'boot0' for i386)?
> I would like this to be as painless as possible, once set up.
There is the OF menu (hold down option), but the FreeBSD boot block is 
currently hard-coded to boot from the first UFS partition on the disk it 
is on, so this only works for multi-disk setups or multi-booting into 
Linux and OS X.
-Nathan